Alex Karp
American businessman
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| 2025 | Reaches a net worth exceeding US$10 billion, ranking among the top 300 billionaires on both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes Real-Time Billionaires Index. |
| February 2025 | Karp co-authors the book 'The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West' with Nicholas Zamiska, which critically examines Silicon Valley and advocates for technology industry collaboration with government to address global challenges. |
| 2024 | Named CEO of the Year by The Economist. |
| 2024 | Ranked 1143rd on Forbes annual World's Billionaires List with a net worth of US$2.9 billion. |
| 2024 | Alex Karp publicly condemned pro-Palestinian university campus protests, characterizing their views as a 'pagan religion' and 'an infection inside of our society', and suggesting protesters should be sent to North Korea. |
| 2024 | A documentary film titled 'Watching You: The World of Palantir and Alex Karp' is released, exploring Palantir's influence and Karp's career, featuring interviews with former colleagues, politicians, and critics. Karp himself did not participate in the documentary. |
| 2024 | Karp publicly condemned pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses, characterizing the protesters' views as a 'pagan religion' and 'an infection inside of our society', and suggested that protesters should be sent to North Korea. |
| December 2023 | Palantir announced 180 job positions specifically reserved for Jewish college graduates in response to alleged antisemitism on college campuses during pro-Palestinian protests. |
| December 2023 | Palantir announced they would set aside 180 job positions specifically for Jewish college graduates, citing alleged antisemitism on college campuses in response to pro-Palestinian protests. |
| 2020 | Completed his board of directors tenure at both Axel Springer SE and BASF. |
| 2020 | Ranked by The New York Times as the highest-paid CEO of a publicly traded company, with compensation worth $1.1 billion in the year Palantir went public. |
| 2018 | Alex Karp became a member of the board of directors at Axel Springer SE, serving until 2020. |
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